- You've shown more commitment to these APIs than MS ever did!
- bmonkey325 519 days agolol. Many of these are alive or will at least still run on windows. About the only dead one is silver light. As its browser runtime is no longer available.
- I love my VirtualBoy. The Wario game is genuinely great... just in 20 minute stints. More than that and my skull needs to be put back together.
- Very interesting read. Sure like a lot of us this movie inspired me.. and I guess still does tbh.
- I am pretty sure I started with Think Pascal but we quickly moved to Think C and then Metrowerks (c compiler).
The primary reason for moving to C was so we could share code between Windows 3.1 and Macintosh... which was terrible because of the different memory models between windows and macintosh.
- Happy New Year. Thanks for running Two Stop Bits.
- the RetroChannel is very lo-key as well, I enjoy both these channels: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRetroChannel
- I've learned a lot from Adrian's videos. He shows all the mistakes he makes as well. One good thing is that he no longer shows the cleaning and retro-brighting stages... because wow, we've all seen that a thousand times now!
- It's an interesting project fore sure. Some criticism that it's overly expensive/complex though: https://www.thebyteattic.com/2021/09/engineering-for-purpose...
- I'd say the main thrust of the article is not about cost or complexity, but about the lack of a clear purpose or reason to exist. In the opinion of the article's author, it's not a good educational tool, not a cheap powerful computer and not a real retro platform with a massive game library, so what is it good for?
I tend to understand the X16 as the 8-bit Guy chasing a dream of designing his own computer, which he was successful at - and getting there is impressive. It is not a great product, though, and there are many other hobby computers today available, at lower price points and serving different markets.
- I kind of lost faith in 8-bit guy when he started to restore a "rare" computer and then proceeded to damage the case because he couldn't be bothered to go to a hardware store and buy the correct screw-driver-bit to open the case.
I felt so sorry for the person who donated the machine thinking it was going to a good home.
Hopefully he was just having a brain fart moment like we all do... but it left a bad taste.
- The Inside Macintosh books were peak technical manuals for me. Clear, concise and complete. My first job was writing Macintosh Multi Media programs and the QuickDraw manuals were invaluable. Amazing work.
I still prefer to work from books to this day even though everything is online and sucks.
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